Equity and Engagement in online learning

Course description

Course description
Learning & Teaching Innovation presents a two-hour workshop, with the first half being a presentation by Associate Professor Cathy Stone from the University of Newcastle, on how to foster equity and engagement in online learning, with a focus on the active facilitation of online asynchronous topics. The second half will be a workshop-style session with LTI staff, with the opportunity for you to workshop your topic and challenges as well as engaging with examples and current practices.

About the presenter
Associate Professor Cathy Stone is an independent researcher and consultant in higher education student engagement and success. Her professional background is in Social Work, student support and research aimed at enhancing student equity in higher education. Accredited as a Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Cathy has a long-standing interest in and commitment to widening participation and improving the student experience for increasingly diverse university student cohorts.
From 2010 Cathy worked with Open Universities Australia as their Director of Student Success before moving into an academic role with the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Excellence in Education in Higher Education (CEEHE) in 2016/2017 as an inaugural Equity Fellow with the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE). The Guidelines for Improving Student Outcomes in Online Learning (Stone, 2017), that were produced from Cathy’s Fellowship research, were vital to many Australian universities as they made the rapid switch to online delivery at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. These Guidelines and the research behind them continue to play an important role in the ongoing development of online education delivery.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

• Topic Coordinators teaching into Flinders Online topics
• Academics interested in Asynchronous teaching and learning
• Learning Designers
• Anyone interested in equity and student engagement in learning
  
  

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

None